Scottish trainer Jim Goldie is in good form and Vintage Taittinger is strongly fancied to keep the ball rolling in the Gifford Apprentice Handicap at Musselburgh tonight.

Goldie, who is based near Glasgow, first took out a licence in 1992 and has already passed his seasonal best this year with 10 winners under his belt from his small family-run operation.

Vintage Taittinger won the corresponding race last year, beating Trilby two lengths and he looks to have everything going for him to stage a repeat.

He is on exactly the same mark - a lowly 27 - and though he makes his reappearance, he will be fit enough, having run respectably over fences at the start of the month.

Vintage Taittinger has a good attitude - which can't be said for one or two of his opponents - and Goldie has booked Paul Quinn, who comes from the Reg Hollinshead "academy" and has a couple of winners under his belt.

But four of the eight runners are ridden by jockeys yet to taste victory, including Hamilton winner Urgent Reply.

Another course winner, Broctune Gold, can take the Gosford Bay Handicap. Mary Reveley's seven-year-old gained both his wins last year at the track and was again successful at the venue this month when beating Lunch Party two lengths.

He can make all and hold off Goldie's Seconds Away.

At Pontefract, Anno Domini looks head and shoulders above his rivals in the Robert Bowett Saab Auction Maiden. Paul Cole's colt ran a cracking race when pitched in at the deep end in the Windsor Castle Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Despite missing the break, he recovered to finish fifth of 14, beaten under sixth lengths by the winner, Flanders, and was not given a hard time when his chance had gone. He now takes a plunge in class.

Principality finished fourth in the Windsor Castle and on that form should take the Spindrifter Conditions Stakes while David Barker's starlet, Pigeon, is suggested in a wide-open Tote Fillies' Handicap.